Charred roof debris in front of the cathedral’s altar LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty
Many Twitter users expressed dismay this week at the 鈥渓oss鈥 of Notre Dame following the blaze that engulfed the top of the Paris cathedral on 15 April. But, thankfully, the situation isn鈥檛 as disastrous as that: most of the building is still intact thanks to its clever design, and hundreds of millions of euros have already been pledged for restoration.
It took around 17 hours, and the efforts of 1000 firefighters and a 500-kilogram robot, to extinguish the fire. Although the spire was destroyed, the Gothic cathedral鈥檚 timber…
